Original Quotes

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. (Abraham Lincoln)
Be yourself. The world worships the original. View quote
Ingrid Bergman
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. View quote
Arthur Koestler
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products. View quote
Steve Jobs
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. View quote
François-René de Chateaubriand
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original. View quote
Joseph Haydn
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? View quote
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. View quote
Freeman Dyson
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. View quote
Samuel Johnson
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. View quote
Stephen Fry
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program... View quote
Poul Anderson
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. View quote
Willa Cather
Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. View quote
Alain-René Lesage
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. View quote
Oscar Wilde
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. (Gustave Flaubert)
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. View quote
Henri Matisse
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe